You Are The Embodiment Of Intelligence


Ishvara:

You believe in your story, and often you forget that you can change it. There is a wisdom you learn from direct experience: that you don't continue to do the same things over and over again, expecting the result to be different. You realize, "OK, we've done that, and we don't need to do it again." It is like a person who walks the same path every day, every time stumbling and falling over a particular rock. It is not a large rock, but each day the person falls over it. Why not move the rock? Why keep stumbling?

Why continue to go down the same path, when you know where it goes, and what the consequences are? All the time, you have the ability to create a new path, to go a different way, to look at something differently.

If you are going to be bothered with thinking, it is a good practice to purposefully have different thoughts. How many ways can you look at something? How many ways can you hear something? I have become quite good at that. Ever since the awakening began eighteen years ago, I have been saying the same thing over and over again; I just find different ways of saying it, looking at it, and you think I am saying something new! That is what occurs when you reduce Life to its utter simplicity: there is not much to say about it. Instead, it is a matter of "Just do it; be it; experience it, master it." That's it.

Hopefully you can be inspired and encouraged to see the bigger picture, to come to the awareness that your thoughts are important, and what you know about something is even more important than your thoughts. Thoughts come from the thinking mechanism in the intellect, and they can be very conditional, tied to the past and linked to consensus reality, but what you know through direct experience is what you actually are aware of, what you have felt directly.

People have told me, "This is the way it is," and I have said, "Well, that sounds interesting, but have you experienced it? Is 'the way it is' your experience, or is it what you believe?" They reply, "Well, it is written, it is taught; people say it is so." That is a bunch of crap.

You go for direct experience. That doesn't mean you deny things. Instead, you allow for possibilities all the time, but you realize that direct experience is necessary in order to develop a body of knowing. It can't be "They say," it can't be "Somebody else said this is what happened," it can't be "The group believes." People make up stuff all the time. Students claim their master levitates; that is what they want to believe, and so after awhile they believe it. There are documented accounts of teachers who have done all kinds of horrendous and abusive things, and their disciples hardly noticed. That is what occurs when people do not go for direct experience, when they do not use their own sense of awareness and connection as to what is appropriate, and what can happen.

There is something very powerful that takes place in the mastership of Life when you go for direct knowing. You no longer accept what "They say"; instead, you try the currents of Life, you test them, you see if it works. But you have to be careful, because if you have a lot of beliefs and concepts you may miss how it can work. That is the case with a large segment of the population; they are so caught up into beliefs and concepts "about," superstition "about," that they can't see. They have eyes, but they can't see; they have ears, but they can't hear. Their eyes are blind, their ears are full of hearsay. They see only what they believe they should see, what they expect to see.

Direct experience with the core, the heart of Life, begins to reveal to you the true energy pattern, the working of existence itself, the very embodiment of intelligence and information. Every individual has this connection. You don't need to go through somebody else to have it; it is in you. Yes, it may need to be pointed out, to be brought to the fore, because consensus reality, the hypnotized world, is not going to point it out. Unless it is pointed out, you may be oblivious to what-you-are as the essence of Life, the embodiment of intelligence that is connected to the whole of the information field, the whole of existence.

As you master Life, you are mastering the flow of energy, you are mastering connections and awarenesses, you are seeing how things work. You gain an understanding of existence itself, you transcend cause and effect. You see that "It works this way, because it can." People hate hearing "because it can." They ask: "Why is it that way?" The answer is: "Because it can be." People hate that answer, because it doesn't satisfy the intellect. The intellect says, "That's not an answer; I want to know why it's that way." If you know it's that way, what difference will a "why" make? Is it going to change it? It is still going to be what it is.

This awareness involves looking at Life and knowing that you are the embodiment of intelligence, of Life, on purpose, that you are designed to learn, to experience, and to connect in all the sundry possibilities of Life. There are so many possibilities, so many ways of seeing, and being and experiencing, so many shades and colors. You begin to realize that you don't ever need to do anything over again; you don't ever need to take the same path; there is no way that Life has to be. You can always do something new.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is the continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on March 13, 2005. - TG.

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